I want to be able to copy a just-compressed logfile from one machine to
another. Unfortunately, the following rule does not seem to work as
/var/log/phantom.log.1.gz never seems to be present when the postrotate
script is called. Is the just-rotated logfile not compressed until
after postrotate is called? In other words, is this the order of rotate
actions:
1. prerotate
2. rotate
3. postrotate
4. compress
If this is the case, will I have to compress the just-rotated logfile in
the postrotate script if I want to copy a compressed file?
FYI, here is my logrotate rule:
/var/log/phantom/phantom.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 52
copytruncate
compress
nodelaycompress
create 644 tomcat4 nogroup
postrotate
if [ -e /var/log/phantom/phantom.log.1.gz ] ; then
scp -Bq -i /home/phantom/.ssh/id_rsa
/var/log/phantom/phantom.log.1.gz foo@bar.com:log/phantom-`date
+"%Y-%m-%d"`.log.gz
fi
endscript
}
thanks,
ian.